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Please note that the manual is a little bit misleading when providing references. The sourceforge URL cited (i.e. http://sourceforge.net/projects/cracklib) is the homepage of cracklib the enabler (upon which other things build), NOT the crack PECL extension. If you are a PHP user looking for the crack PECL extension, you should NOT download from sourceforge. Instead, you should download from the PECL homepage (http://pecl.php.net). When you are there, search for "crack" not "cracklib".

CrackLib (or PHP Crack) can not cope with plaintext wordlists.You have to generate a binary version of any plaintext list first.

After you have done this you get 3 files with different extensions:

my_list.txt

---->

my_list.pwdmy_list.hwmmy_list.pwi

crack_opendict() must be called with the first argument describing the path and base filename of the binary wordlist, e.g. C:\....\my_list or /usr/local/... (see below)

Now the bad news - how to generate the 3 files:

The only way i managed to do it:

o Download the CrackLib package from sourceforge (see link in php.net txt)o USE UNIX/LINUX:o run configureo run make allo run make installo run make dict (having the wordlists in the /dict directory)o look for the files in /usr/local/share/cracklib/o copy the files in a convenient directory